hibonutil

This tool converts to and from HiBON The hibonutil support the following arguments.

Documentation: https://docs.tagion.org/

Usage:
hibonutil [<option>...] <in-file>

Where:
<in-file>           Is an input file in .json or .hibon format

<option>:
  --version display the version
-c  --stdout Print to standard output
-p  --pretty JSON Pretty print: Default: false
-b  --base64 Convert to base64 string
-v --verbose Print more debug information
-o  --output outputfilename only for stdin
   --sample Produce a sample HiBON
-h    --help This help information.

HiBON sample

The hibonutil can produce sample HiBON files.

> hibonutil --sample
Write sample.hibon
Write sample_array.hibon

This produces two samples files.

Covert to a JSON format

By default hibonutil will convert a .hibon file to a .json file.

> hibonutil sample.hibon

Will produces a sample.json which can be seen in HiBON_JSON_format.

The json can be printed to stdout with the -c and if -p is added the in pretty prints the .json.

> hibonutil -pc sample.hibon

Covert a JSON to HiBON format

By default hibonutil will convert a .json file to a .json file.

> hibonutil sample.json

Will produces a sample.hibon file.

Convert to base64.

By adding the -b switch the file will be converted to a base64 and this will produces a .txt file.

> hibonutil -b sample.hibon

Convert to base64 to .hibon

> hibonutil sample.txt

Convert from stdin

The util can read from stdin by specifying a file name with the -o switch.

Convert from .hibon to .json

> cat sample.hibon |hibonutil -po test.json

Converting a list of files

The hibonutil can convert a list of file from .hibon to .json and vica versa.

hibonutil sample.json sample_array.hibon test.json

Produces the files sample.hibon sample_array.json test.hibon.